Fun Facts

Welcome to Fun Facts! This page contains all types of fascinating figures and interesting goodies from all of the theme parks! This is mostly an archive of fun facts that are posted daily on all of our social pages. If you want to be the first to know some of our incredible facts, please like or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Linked In. This page may or may not be updated daily as they will be posted on social media first and added here later.

General Walt Disney World

WaltDisneyWorld is the largest single site employer in the United States

Walt Disney World has only closed 5 times, Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Hurricane Frances and Jean in 2004, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, a Power failure in 2002 and right after Sept. 11th, 2001

Since it opened in ’71, the Monorail has racked up enough miles to equal over 30 round trips to the moon!

There are enough empty land and plots on Walt Disney World property to build a whopping 20 more resort hotels!

There’s a forest shaped liked Mickey right off of Walt Disney World property in Clermont Florida, it is only visible from the sky! It was planted in 1992 by cast members and volunteers!

Magic Kingdom

On opening day they were expecting 100,000 guests to the Magic Kingdom. There was only about 10,000 in attendance.

In 1971, the e-ticket (main/more expensive) rides in The Magic Kingdom were Country Bears Jamboree, Hall Of Presidents, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Smallworld, Jungle Cruise, Pirates Of The Caribbean, & Space Mountain

It opened Oct 1, 1971, but the inauguration wasn’t until Oct 25, that gave them time to fix the massive amount of issues that came up after opening

The Liberty Tree in the center of Liberty Square is a live oak tree & commemorates the meeting place of the Sons of Liberty. It is 135 years old and weights 35 tons.

On opening day the admission to enter the Magic Kingdom was $3.50 with various teared ticket books available to buy to go on rides.

Cinderella Castle

The murals in the castle were made by Dorothea Redmond and have 500,000 tiles in 500 colors including. some with 14 karat gold!

Jungle Cruise

Each scene in The Jungle Cruise is taken from true-life adventure series that Walt Disney produced in the 60s.

Haunted Mansion

You cannot see ghosts until you are pushed out the window and die in attic scene